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[ bumps his shoulder back shaking his head: ]

He might but maybe I need a break from hearing him.

[ it's mostly a joke. ] You can, there's just not much to say, you know?

[ a beat and he decides to say out loud versus gingham possibly just hearing it. ]

... but I guess I am partly afraid of leaving.

[squeezes his hand again]

Scared by what part, exactly?

What happens if they don't let Dove off?

Or - maybe they do and we all get off and we get used to things and convince ourselves it'll be normal? How do we even do that after a month here? And it sounds like we'll be made to come back anyway.

So I don't know, just feels like dangling false hope?

...I get it. It feels kind of overwhelming to just go back to things as normal like nothing happened, right?

... yeah. [ Jokingly: ] I was never super normal to begin with —

— that doesn't mean I think other people shouldn't get off? Like you definitely deserve to get off and have fun. Forte, too. And I really wanna hope that it all works out all right and even if it's for a little while everyone has some peace.

Don't get me wrong, even if you stay here to sleep and stuff I'm absolutely dragging you off at least every couple of days to do fun stuff.

[ okay, that earns a laugh: ]

Uh. Duh, I hope you won't? There's a very real possibility we will have our one month anniversary docked and I am pre-emptively booking you for the entire day regardless.

Edited 2025-03-23 02:49 (UTC)

Ohh, you're totally right...

I will gladly skip school for you.

[ snorts, nudging him: ]

Glad to hear I'm worth skipping school for.

I would go so far to say that you're worth skipping an entire week for.

[teasing]

[ dramatic gasp ]

Sir, that's practically a criminal offense.

[snorts]

I've already missed like a month and a half, they can deal.

I can't believe you, you've gone rogue.

It's a good thing Holy Order does not actually have a prison cell on ship, just an animal therapy room. You'd have too much fun there, so you can't be locked up there either.

I got away from them once, I can do it again.

A rebel.

[ leans into him. ]

I like that, but I'm glad you got away from them too. So, school - you're going to go straight back?

[leans into him in turn]

That's the plan, yeah. I know there's a lot happening in the present... But I want to focus on the future, too, even if things seem pretty bad right now.

There's nothing wrong with that. Why do you think I've been studying so much?

Sounds like you want to come back to school with me...?

[a little teasing]

[ hmm ]

I don't know, we'll see each other a lot less if we're in school.

—Oh, the class difference. True...

And I'll be trapped between Nightingale and Starling again, true torture.

[ a beat. ]

Actually, school might not be so bad now?

Yeah? How so?

Because now I have these things.

[ he puts the earbuds on the table! ]

They're not working right now and I wouldn't wear them around you unless you asked me, too.

Ah - yeah, that makes complete sense. I hope they work for you if you do decide to go back.

Hopefully, they'll let me wear them.

— But if you're going back, so am I.

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